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Unix Isn't Dead
windows bios world writes: "Compaq, Sun, SGI, and IBM are releasing new machines running Unix. From cnet.com: 'Compaq has begun shipping test versions of a new line of AlphaServer Unix servers using the EV7 "Marvel" version of the company's Alpha processor. ... As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001.' Also, Sun teamed up with Sony to release video-on-demand servers." And of course, there's OS X.
FMS (FORTRAN Monitor system) has been dead for about 40 years. It is not expected to re-appear anytime soon.
but... i thought everyone used IIS?
Someone flag this user for Balmerization, he has dared to question The Truth of the Microsoft.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Aww, c'mon. Laugh, it's funny.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
...but why Microsoft Windows considers itself really alive.
Windows is a teenager--and a rude, aggressive, unpredictable one at that--compared to the various Unixen out there.
To paraphrase "Dark Paladin" in a recent article about his Mac OS X conversion: Microsoft Windows is like your class president that didn't do shit. Linux is like a super-smart, sexy redhead girlfriend that's also a bit insane. Mac OS X is like the geeky girl at school who shed her braces and became a total hottie--and still wants to spend all her time hanging around with you.
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
btw, when did News.com become News.com.com ?? What is this, 1999 or something? I wonder how much money they blew on purchasing Com.com. That was a great investment..
cpeterso
Does anyone know of a website or anything that could perhaps show me the way out?
I can't imagine asking my boss to drop 150 large on a Starkitty.
"Well sir, we can either go with the IBM p670 or the Sun Starkitty."
"The IBM or WHAT!?"
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
I'm not dead!
I'm not!
I'm getting better!
I don't want to go on the cart!
I feel fine!
I think I'll go for a walk.
[singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
(etc. Credit due the fine fellows of Python)
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
Anyone who did that would have to be clinically insane and would most likely not only hunt down the hacker but torture him in some as of yet unknown way involving ms bob and a chainsaw.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Microsoft releases Windows/X, a BSD-based unix with an open-source layer called Freud and a graphical interface called Water. The OS uses twin APIs; a cleaned up Win32 called Soot and (uh) Chocolate.
I don't think this story quite passes my "Flanders" test:
[Rod shows Todd a headline: "Playtime Is Fun"]
Todd: [gives thumbs-up] Go with it!
If your headline can be substituted for "Playtime Is Fun" in the above, and it is still funny, then the story has failed the Flanders test.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
... it just smells funny.
(With apologies to Monty Python)
PHB: Bring out your dead!
MS: Here's one.
Unix: I'm not dead.
PHB: What!?
MS: Nothing.
Unix: I'm not dead!
PHB: Ere', he says he's not dead.
MS: Yes he is!
Unix: I'm not!
PHB: He isn't?
MS: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
Unix: I'm getting better!
MS: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
This is of course the guy version -- any female /.ers want to comment?
Windows 2000/XP: Yes, she's hot, and by all accounts good in the sack, but you've heard stories. Miss XP in particular has a well-documented reputation for being something of a fleabag.
Windows 98: Not bad looking, not real interesting, probably going to college because her parents want her to. High maintenance, low expectations.
WinME: Same girl, sophomore year, taken to wearing too much makeup because her parents wouldn't let her wear any.
Linux: Heartbreakingly beautiful, or at least she would be if she tried, but couldn't care less. If she showed up in anything even as daring as a scoop-necked top, though, everyone would be drooling and nobody would recognize her.
MacOS (classic): Beautiful but ditzy, basically compentent but was mysteriously the best student in art class. Daddy gave her an AmEx gold card.
MacOS X: Went to college, still beautiful, still ditzy, but there's clearly a brain under there. But she's holding back for some reason.
BeOS: Quirky, slightly psycho hot goth chick that transferred out sophomore year just as soon as everyone started to get to know her.
PalmOS: MacOS' kid sister. Just as hot, but seems determined not to grow up.
/Brian
I might get modded off topic, but I think it's interesting:
/dev/audio bug. . . I had a co-worker who made many interesting uses of that in our group. The first use was transmission of "biological noises" to someone else's cube-just ftp an audio file to the machine's /dev/audio, or telnet in and cat any file.
Regarding that
The second use was a recording of a telephone ring. When someone is standing just outside the office, he'd send a telephone ring, which sounds like it's coming from the phone (if the phone was right next to the computer), and the victim would rush to get the phone to no avail.
It was really fun to play with and I missed it when we got upgraded to Solaris.
-- "This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."